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  • ABILITY IN DISABILITY  By : Joshua T. J.
    The fact that you can't is the reason why you can. You can do what God said you should do.
  • Academic Divisions  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The failure to accept the Christ of Scripture by substituting a christ of Greek or human wisdom results in, among other things, divisions in the church. The divisions arise from the false understandings produced by filtering the gospel through the categories of human wisdom, by submitting the gospel to the categories of academia.
  • Accommodation  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The Bible is opposed to all forms of sin. And because people naturally love their sins, it is opposed to the sins of godlessness and multiculturalism. Beware of leaders who value freedom over truth.
  • Against Originality  By : Phillip A. Ross
    We are taught in our schools, colleges, universities and through the media that being human means being original, that we become most human when we are most original. Indeed, Humanism is the celebration of original thinkers as embodying the best that humanity has to offer. Artists will know what I'm talking about. But the Bible teaches that human beings were created in God's image. We are not originals, but some sort of copies of the Original.
  • All Of God’s Blessings And Promises Are Yours! Revealed By His Spirit.  By : Pastor Reinhard
    When the Holy Spirit begins to reveal to you the abundance of God’s blessings and the fact that you are good enough the way you are right now to receive all of God’s blessings, then .......
  • Amazing Bible  By : treeman
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  • Apostleship and Followership  By : Phillip A. Ross
    There are no Christian spectators. This is why spectator worship is such a crime against the Spirit! Worship that treats the congregation as spectators trains Christians to be blind followers.
  • Are You Worthy?  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The simple act of participating in the Lord's Supper brings about the separation of the saved and the lost by distinguishing the difference between them, that difference being regeneration or Christ.
  • Attitude, Apostasy and Disillusionment  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The goal of reaching perfect sanctification in Christ can't be reached apart from the process of growth that leads to it. To short-circuit the process for fear of where it may lead evidences a failure
  • Baptisms  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Apollos had been missing one thing. In spite of the fact that Apollos had been nurtured by and educated in the essentials of Christianity, and had been teaching and preaching about Jesus in a correct and accurate way, he was for a time still missing the central element of faithfulness -- a changed heart or baptism by the Holy Spirit
  • Bless God for Pardoning All Thy Sins  By : Ray Zink
    An exhortation to bless God for his mercy. The beginning and chiefest of all benefits, remission of sin.
  • Bodily Self-Examination  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Receiving Communion is not simply helpful for the saved, those who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. It is also harmful for the lost, those who have not been regenerated.
  • Born Again  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Show me someone who thinks that Christianity is foolish, and I'll show you a worldly person. The reason that they think Christianity is foolish is that they cannot perceive the reality of God.
  • Calling, Contentment and Slavery  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Christians are not called to do the same things, but each Christians has a unique calling that is uniquely suited to his or her unique situation. Bloom where you are planted.
  • Can You Dig It?  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Those who call themselves Christians but don't grow in the faith are dead, not alive in Christ. Such people will find themselves on "rocky ground" (Matthew 13:5-6). These words are from Jesus, which were given for the encouragement of God's people, to encourage us forward in faithfulness, to give us the courage to persevere in faithfulness. We are encouraged to dig down deep into the soil of Christianity. And what is that soil?
  • Chasing The Culture vs. Leading It  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Too many Christians think that they need dress the gospel up in the latest fads of music, drama, literature, etc., in order for the gospel to be relevant to contemporary people. Too many Christians have it ass backwards. It isn’t that the Bible needs to be relevant to people, but that people need to be relevant to the Bible. Is the culture to lead the church? Or is the church to lead the culture?
  • Christian Antithesis  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The church will grow in faith and in numbers when it is seen as a viable option to the ways of the world. It will grow by differentiating itself from the world, not by trying to integrate itself into the world, or by trying to grow on a foundation of worldliness.
  • Christian's Deplorable Condition - A Confession of Sin, and Afflictions Bewailed  By : Ray Zink
    Unclean - Formerly there were some that feared thee; but now we are all as one polluted mass, nothing of good left in us by reason of an universal degeneracy.
  • Christians Aren't Superior  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Christians cannot claim any personal credit (or glory) for their moral improvement. We are what we are, not because we have worked hard to become good Christians, but solely because Jesus Christ died on the cross and dispatched His Holy Spirit to us while we were still awash in sin and disobedience.
  • Church Courts, Hate Crimes and Moral Decay  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Church courts are charged with keeping the peace and purity of the church. And that is no easy job because the very things that contribute to the purity of the church often disturb its peace, and those things that contribute to the peace of the church often contribute to its impurity. An emphasis upon right doctrine disturbs many Christians. And an emphasis on "going along to get along" often pollutes right practice.
  • Commuity Union  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Christians need to fellowship with other Christians. There are a lot of reasons for this. Because our values and interests change once we have been converted, we find that we have less and less in common with people who are not Christian. Our circle of friends changes because we like being with Christians more than with non-Christians. The old adage is that birds of a feather flock together.
  • Consequences of Sin  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Why would God bless His own people with genuine spiritual food, and then let them die in the desert? They were God's people, right? Why didn't God protect them? Why didn't God preserve them?
  • Crazy Christians  By : Phillip A. Ross
    We have been trained by the world, by the values of secular humanism through our public education, through the secular values and practices of the media and the workplace. That training has taught us to ignore the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit when that testimony is not in conformity with the values and practices of secular humanism. And Christians are not immune from the pervasiveness of secular humanism in contemporary society.
  • Dead Men Walking  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Each person would have to decide for himself whether Paul spoke the truth, and whether or not to heed the truth that Paul spoke. But understanding what he was talking about was not sufficient.
  • Defilement & Unity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Inasmuch as we defile the church, God will defile us. It appears that God will give back to us what we give to Him.
  • Denial  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The spiritual person considers or evaluates everything on the basis of Scripture. The spirituality of such a person effects everything that they think, say and do. Such a person applies the categories of Scripture to everything, and, first and foremost, the wisdom of Scripture is applied to his own life.
  • Discerning Divisive Divisions and Understanding Unity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    There are two kinds of diversity -- ethnic diversity and doctrinal (or philosophical/theological) diversity. We know as a fact that Jesus gave the church incredible ethnic diversity. But Christianity is not doctrinally diverse, nor is it intended to be.
  • Divisive Waters  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Apollos, prior to meeting with Aquila and Priscilla, appeared to have everything right. Yet, Paul faulted him for knowing only the baptism of John, implying that there was something significant that Apollos lacked -- some sort of baptism, or something related to baptism.
  • Don’t Just Sit There, Be Something!  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Those who were filthy with sin had been washed in the blood of Christ, and set apart from sin to serve God's purposes. The common understanding down the ages has been that saints practice a superior morality, that being a Christian or being called by God resulted in moral growth or refinement. That common understanding is not wrong, but more often than not it is misunderstood and misrepresented.
  • Don’t Worry? Your Needs Are Supplied  By : Pastor Reinhard Westphal
    God needs your needs to supply your needs. The Apostle Paul makes this absolute fantastic statement: “My God shall supply ALL your needs!” That was not Paul’s wishful thinking. No! That statement...
  • Ethics, Morality and Love  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The ethical person has abstract knowledge about what is right and wrong and has an intellectual understanding. Whereas the moral person has concrete has a behavioral understanding.
  • Evangelism Gifts  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Real evangelism is not arm twisting people into the kingdom. It is the exercise of faithful service in the midst of ordinary living.
  • Everyone Benefits From Christianity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Though education does not and cannot save anyone, Christian education is good for everyone. The saved need to be educated in godliness for their own sanctification. The lost who are not-yet-saved need to be educated in godliness in order to draw them into salvation and sanctification. The unsavable need to be educated in godliness in order to help them from being as evil as they can be.
  • Foolishness, Pride and Church Growth  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Imagine that Paul is your boss, who has been away, and you are talking to him on the phone. He has a disagreement with how you are handling things in his absence, and he tells you that he will return next week. Then he asks you how you would like him to approach you about this problem when he gets back.
  • Freedom and Possibility  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Real freedom is not doing what you want. Our wants are controlled by sin, so that kind of freedom is slavery to sin. Real freedom is doing what God wants us to do.
  • Freedom From Stupidity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Christian freedom is not unlimited freedom, but is dependent on the weaker brother. Christians must not engage their own freedoms if others will misunderstand or misinterpret our activity and get snag
  • Freedom's Limits  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Against the tide of unrestrained freedom, Paul argued for caution and restraint. Here and elsewhere Paul argued that freedom in Christ did not mean that Christians were free to do whatever they want.
  • Gideon Bible Story: Signs of the Time  By : Patrick Boone
    Gideon seems to be a very popular character from the Old Testament. A weak man used for a great cause. What makes him the story so popular? Why do people chose to read his story over all the others
  • Gift of Love  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The gift Christians share in common provides the context for the blossoming of the different gifts that make us unique. And conversely, our unique differences provide the context for the common glue..
  • Gifts: Faith and Healing  By : Phillip A. Ross
    God works in His church, His people, through a variety of means. And that in spite of the variety of ways that God makes Himself manifest there is always a unity to them.
  • God Is A Good God And He Wants To Show His Goodness To You  By : Pastor Reinhard Westphal
    Every Christian that I know of beliefs that God is a good God. But how does God’s goodness affect our daily walk with God? How does the goodness of God help us in living the Christian life?
  • God is Three In One  By : Phillip A. Ross
    While it is difficult to explain the Trinity, it is at the same time the most ordinary concept imaginable. Everyone intuitively understands that a thing can be both individual and corporate at the sam
  • God Uses Ordinary People to Do Extraordinary Things  By : Christian Faith
    There is no such thing as the wrong side of the tracks with God. I think it was Jim Collins who wrote the book “Good to Great,” which said, “It is a sin to be good when you can be great.”
  • God's Gifts  By : Phillip A. Ross
    A person who has charisma is a person who is attractive and influential among others. Paul's usage of the word in this chapter suggests that spiritual gifts are used by God for evangelism.
  • God's Objectivity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    It is not through knowledge of the world that we come to know God's place in the world. But rather it is by being known by God that we come to know our place in the world. The difference involves a seismic shift in perspective.
  • Gospel Expense  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The presentation of the gospel must be freed from the encumbrances of the inane and petty dung that has captured church pulpits.
  • Happy Holiday!  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Thanksgiving and Christmas are soon upon us. For most people they are a time of pain and difficulty for many reasons. They are family celebrations, but our families are mostly broken.
  • Having an Attitude of Gratitude  By : Christian Faith
    As you read this article, take a moment to answer the following question, “Is there a reason for me to be thankful today?” If you are alive to read the question, then you have a reason for rejoicing!
  • Head Coverings  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Should contemporary women wear head coverings? The first question to ask is, Who has jurisdiction to countermand Paul's teaching? Is it simply a women's issue? Or is it a family matter? Or should your
  • Head Dressing  By : Phillip A. Ross
    All biblical government is representative government, and it always exists and operates through various hierarchies of authority and responsibility. Thus, the wearing of a head covering was for...
  • Healing, Helping, Administrations  By : Phillip A. Ross
    An overview and explanation of these gifts.
  • Heaven - The Wisdom Contained in This Glory  By : Ray Zink
    There are things God hath prepared for those that love him, and wait for him, which sense cannot discover, no teaching can convey to our ears, nor can it yet enter our hearts.
  • Heaven's Short List  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Who goes to heaven and who doesn’t? What is the difference between believers and unbelievers? Paul does not neglect the spiritual aspects of this difference between believers and unbelievers. He simpl
  • Helpful Divisions  By : Phillip A. Ross
    False beliefs "must be" in the churches, according to Paul. God's purpose is unalterable, and since there were false prophets during Old Testament times, it must be expected that false teachers would arise in the Christian churches. Satan is always busy sowing the seeds and tares of false doctrine.
  • House Cleaning  By : Phillip A. Ross
    If the church would clean its own house, it would not fall under the judgment of God. This is very difficult to hear and even more difficult to actually engage.
  • How Brokenness Can lead You to Your True Purpose In Life  By : Chris Beard
    Have you ever found yourself putting great dependence on some area of your life or confidence in yourself? Maybe an area that you take great pride in, your education, your career, your possessions, your wealth, your good looks, your achievements, athletic ability, you communication skills, your intelligence, your status at work or among your friends or simply the independent pursuit of such things are the total focus or top priority in your life.
  • How to break free from the guilt of your past God's way!  By : Pastor Reinhard Westphal
    God has a great future planed for you, but you will not be able to fully enter into it if you don't break free from your past. God wants you to leave your past behind you and focus on your future with
  • How to Forgive Yourself  By : Christian Faith
    No matter what the occasion, we often find ourselves looking for the best gift possible to give those we care about. Have you thought about giving yourself the gift of forgiveness this year?
  • How to Overcome Grief  By : Christian Faith
    Overcome grief by meeting it, managing it and mastering it. Grief is a part of the healing process when you have experienced any kind of loss.
  • Hypocrites and Cognitive Dissonance  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The real danger to Christianity is not sinners, but hypocrites, people who identify themselves as Christian but who disregard the practice or essence of Christianity, which is submission to Jesus Christ and the avoidance of sin as it is described in the Bible. Again, we must note that no one is ever completely free from sin in this life. The difference between a Christian and a hypocrite is that a Christian repents of his sin -- daily, whereas the hypocrite does not repent. He wallows or stagnat
  • Interview with Scott Schaeffer, author of Biblical Freedom  By : Christian Walk Today
    Schaeffer makes a significant contribution to the Christian community with his new book, “Biblical Freedom from Religious Oppression.”
  • Is Success Killing Your Dreams?  By : Christian Walk Today
    How do you differentiate between your gift and your talents or skills?
    Gift - 1) something you have a true passion for and could do 24/7 with or without reward or recognition. 2) the thought of never doing “this” makes you sad/depressed and you can’t imagine “this” not being a part of your life.

    Talent - 1) you do this because you can 2) you have to be rewarded/compensated/recognized for it 3) if you do it, cool. If you don’t, you wouldn’t miss it.
  • John Declares When, Where, and How, the Revelation Was Made to Him  By : Ray Zink
    It was the apostle's comfort that he did not suffer as an evil-doer, but for the testimony of Jesus, for bearing witness to Christ as the Immanuel, the Saviour;
  • Learn How To Walk According To The Spirit In This Easy To Understand Article  By : Peter K. Martell
    Discover what it means to walk according to the spirit in this easy to read article. I have asked myself this question many times and this is the answer I discovered from the Bible.
  • Lord of All  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The fact that Jesus is Lord does not mean that His Lordship just applies to people who agree with Him. Jesus is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. The earliest and most consistent understanding of
  • Love Doesn't Babble  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul's point was to contrast the temporal gifts of the Spirit with the eternal gift of love in order to show the superior character of love
  • Love Endures  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul said that Christian love is more important than mysterious communication with God, even more important than translating the gospel into foreign languages. Why?
  • Love is Not...  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul's great Love Chapter provides a call to faithfulness that cuts through the fog of theology and doctrine without denying or belittling theology and doctrine.
  • Making Use of Christian Software to Help You Study the Bible  By : Chris Bradley
    How long have you used your computer to help you with software. How about having your computer help teach you the bible. You can even study the bible and do bible lessons. Well Christian software can help.
  • Marketing Christ  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Virtually all contemporary Christian marketing pays lip service to Jesus Christ but is focused on the people in the pews. It is primarily concerned with noses and nickels related to particular institutions. It lobbies against preaching or sharing any biblical truth that has a hard edge, that will make people uncomfortable, or that may be difficult to understand. And, like it or not, biblical truth will make us all uncomfortable. It’s supposed to!
  • Marriage And The Trinity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The principle of all unity is God's covenant, or God's law. God's law is the binding force that actually holds the world together. All things in the world exist because of or on the basis of God's law
  • Membership Is Not A Club  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Being a Christian is not like being in a club. It is much deeper. Christian membership cannot be compartmentalized or separated from other aspects of life. It necessarily affects all of life, nothing
  • Mixed Marriages  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul turned his attention from the marriages of believers to what we call mixed marriages, where one marriage partner is not a believer. This is a special circumstance and calls for special treatment.
  • Morality and Maturity  By : Phillip A. Ross
    False gods are powerless because they are not real. And yet, people falsely believe they are real, and establish very real and destructive behaviors on that false basis. Consequently, the more mature
  • Necessary Freedom  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul was compelled to preach freely. So, out of necessity he preached freely. But which is it? Did Paul preach out of freedom or out of necessity? The answer, of course, is yes.
  • No Common Ground  By : Phillip A. Ross
    If the difference that Christ makes is insignificant or trivial, then we might say that our experience or perspective is not much different from that of unbelievers. But if Christ makes a significant difference, a real difference, then we don't see things in the same light, we don't know or experience things in the same way. The more real Christ is, the greater this difference.
  • OVERCOMING THE ADVERSARY  By : Joshua T. J.
    You can be a winner all the time. Once you know the winning principles, you will surely win.
  • Paul's Celibacy  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul surely knew that if all Christians were celibate, they would die out. The Essenes believed that Paul wanted all Christians to be celibate, and they actually died out. Paul was not stupid. Celibac
  • Pay The Piper  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Speaking of wives, he implied that it is costly to care for a family and that those costs don't go away because a person is in the ministry.
  • Peace And Purity In The Churches  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Why is there so much conflict in Christian churches? Because Christians and non-Christians see things differently, and because, as Paul said in Romans 9, not all Israel is Israel. Not all church members are actually Christians (see Matthew 7:21-22). Christians are born again and people who are not born again are not Christians. And this is the chief source of the conflict.
  • Pilgrim’s Progress – Step Three: God's Displeasure at Your Sin  By : Ray Zink
    A sense of guilt is too heavy to bear; and would sink men into despair and ruin, unless removed by the pardoning mercy of God.
  • Potential Jerusalem Marriages  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Previously he had dealt with the new circumstance of mixed marriages. Here Paul was addressing another unusual circumstance that First Century Christians had been thrown into. That circumstance was no
  • Prophecy, Revival & Discernment  By : Phillip A. Ross
    We have a Romantic understanding of revival, as if it is a sweet and glorious time -- like a family reunion or picnic. But real revival, real reformation is traumatic. It divides as well as unites.
  • Prophets, Teachers, Miracles, Science, Technology  By : Phillip A. Ross
    What we call science and technology today, Christians of the First Century would have called miracles. What we assume as commonplace today, would have been considered to be absolutely miraculous.
  • Rejection is God’s Protection  By : Christian Faith
    Right now you’re probably thinking, “Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right. How can rejection be a form of protection?” But I’m not talking about rejecting by God.
  • Separation  By : Phillip A. Ross
    The problem was not that some of the members of the Corinthian church were living in sin. Who isn't? The problem was that some of the members of the Corinthian church had not repented of their sin. Th
  • Sexual Ignorance  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul gives advice about marriage during periods of social upheaval, the marriage bed, difficulties related to child rearing and God's care that supersedes it all.
  • Shame and Judging People  By : Phillip A. Ross
    True reformation and revival of the Christian church will also reform and revive church courts as the desire to avoid civil courts grows among Christians. Indeed, as the civil court system continues to collapse from the backlog of cases and the moral corruption of the legal system, the Christian church may well find itself faced with an opportunity to actually be what God has called it to be -- a vehicle of forgiveness and reconciliation among all people.
  • Sin, The Plague of Every Man's Own Heart  By : Ray Zink
    By their afflictions are brought to a true and serious sense of their worse and inward plague of their sins, which are most fitly called the plague of the heart,
  • SOLVING PROBLEMS  By : Joshua T. J.
    One of the realities of life is the fact that we face challenges everyday.Problems, however,are meant to be solved.Every problem we face in life do not leave us the same - we are either made or marred
  • Soul Winning Strategy  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Paul went for the real gusto, Jesus Christ by becoming all things to all people. Christ calls us to do more than we think we can. He calls us all to exceed our own expectations.
  • Speaking of H-h-hats in W-w-worship  By : Phillip A. Ross
    People are interested in getting the honor and status of association with power and glory of Jesus Christ. But Christ was interested in serving God and enlisting others to serve the Lord in His stead.
  • Table Waiting  By : Phillip A. Ross
    While we wait for Christ to return in judgment, we can help reduce the negative consequences of that judgment by performing the duties of deacons - not necessarily seeking the formal office of deacon.
  • The Best Gift  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Christianity is not a cookie-cutter religion where people try to match or reach some perfect ideal. Quite the contrary! Christianity is a religion rich in diversity.
  • The Bible is Essential for The Christian Way of Life  By : Francis Hirak
    Reading and studying the Bible is key in the Christian way of life but did you know that there are many other benefits to reading the Holy Bible? It is relevant to the problems we face today such as decision making in times of crisis, practical suggestions for everyday life and health on a mental and physical level.
  • The Call of Church Profits  By : Phillip A. Ross
    How the idea and practice of church growth principles changed the purpose of the church from service to the Lord to the maintenance of the pew. Churches and denominations -- Christians -- need to heed and apply Paul's wisdom found here in Corinthians to the practice of evangelism, including and especially the use of modern media (marketing and advertising). We must not allow the wisdom of the world to determine the methodologies of the church.
  • The Foolishness Of Trying To Save Everyone  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Christians don't need to make an appeal on the basis of worldly values and aesthetics because those who will respond truly will respond to the power of the gospel alone. They will not be dissuaded by what the world sees as a foolish and irrelevant message
  • The Illusion of Knowledge  By : Phillip A. Ross
    Knowledge based upon personal experience is neither objective, nor trustworthy. But because the Bible has been vetted by many people in many different cultures over many thousands of years, it's knowl
  • The Lord's Supper  By : Phillip A. Ross
    What Paul calls the Way, they called a sect. The Way of Christ refers to the entire cultural structure of Christianity in its wholeness, its totality. The Way of Christ is a way of life, a lifestyle.
  • The Number One Secret On How To Get What You Need  By : Pastor Reinhard Westphal
    What is this amazing secret? Have you tried all kinds of tutorials? Have you spend lots of money attending seminars and buying books and tapes? In this article I will reveal this amazing secret ...

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